<<Since you have 5 years of living expenses, why not consider this a hedge against a down market and not sell stocks if the market is down?>>*******************************************************Some people do just that and there is nothing wrong with it. The question here is would that be a better strategy that just a strictly mechanical withdrawal one?

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